The first round is an interview with the hiring manager. Introduced about the team and their work. Then, gave me an LLM system design question that related to their daily jobs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a RAG system that can generate slides based on user's prompt
The interview was a 60-min technical screen with the manager. I had serious communication issues as he had a heavy Chinese accent. It took me atleast 3 tries to understand everything he said. He also had this condescending attitude and smirk and felt like he was genuinely happy whenever I faltered during the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prove binary cross entropy is a convex loss function mathematically
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
MAIDAP Program
The first round tech screening is 30 min long. My interviewer is also from the MAIDAP program. No camera.
15 min self introduction + resume dive.
15 min case study + ML coding.
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